Wooden Schooners

Mira is a two-masted schooner built in Faaborg, Denmark in 1898. Mira fought hard to compete on the shipping markets until competition finally forced small freighters out of the market. Her nickname – “First Lady of Nyhavn” – derives from her beauty.

Halmø – a two-masted schooner – has an interesting history. After being launched in Faaborg, Denmark in 1900, she ploughed Danish waters as a freighter and carried many Danish Jews to safety in Sweden during the Second World War.

Lilla Dan is a red topsail schooner built in Svendborg, Denmark in 1951 as a training ship for the J. Lauritzen shipping company, which still owns the beautiful wooden ship today. The concept for the ship was to give trainees a sense of life at sea.